When your student is out of school, we want to alert you to a danger that might be in your very own home: prescription medications. Medicine getting into the wrong hands is a growing problem. You can keep your family safe by following these simple steps:

Lock up all prescription and over-the-counter medicines, or keep them out of sight in a safe place.

Dispose of unwanted, leftover, or old medications by taking them to a secure drop site. Visit www.Drxugsafe.org to find a location near you where you can take old medicine. Do not flush medicine down the toilet.

Talk to your kids and teens about the risk of prescription drug and over-the-counter medicine abuse. Many youth wrongly believe these types of drugs are safer than illicit drugs, but they are not.

Spend time with your children, get to know their friends, and talk to other parents. Many teens have said that the support of their families kept them from doing drugs.

The Community Resources Network (CRN) is a free web-based tool that connects resources to people by helping organizations share information - increasing the likelihood that children, youth, and families in Marion County get their needs met! Find out more

2014-2015 Strategic Priorities

Primary Objective

Use the Commission membership's influence to ignite progress and leverage resources.

Ongoing Strategic Goals

Objectives*

Goal 1: Strengthen familiesAdvance public and private partnerships, agency collaborations, and policies and programs that produce positive results for families.*

Goal 4: Promote workforce readinessPromote the full utilization of Marion County's resources that improve the availability of a stable workforce.*

4.1 Facilitate youth in volunteering and entering the workforce

* The goal statements and listed objectives are in draft.The Children and Families Commission monitors the pulse of Marion County's children, youth and families, addressing expensive problems that are beyond the scope of any single organization. From reducing the number of children in foster care to increasing books available to disadvantaged children, the Commission develops creative solutions to complex issues. Read more

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